Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-04-01
STANDARD AME.
THE CITY HALL CLOCK CHANGED AT
O'CLOCK THIS MORNING
Clocks and Watches Must be Set fwsaty-
Three Minutes PAS Ahsr
That Hour.

SAT six o'clock this morning local sun
time ceased to exist in Wheeling, and
Eastern standard time became the official
time of the city. As soon IS the big bell
on the Public Building struck six Ex-
Mayor Grub, who has charge Of the mu-
nicipal time-pisee, showed the hands around
to twenty-three minutes past six, and the
ordinance lately adopted by Council had
been complied with. 1t is safe to say that
during to-day the change will be uni
yersaly adopted by our citizens, and
the old complicated system Of three
different sorts OF times will be lost sight OF.
Under the Standard system, adopted by
the railroads several years ago, the Ohio
river, from Pittsburg to Huntington, was
made the dividing line between Eastern
and Central time, there being jump OF
one hour, for instance, between Bridge
port, ON the Ohio side, and this city. This
division was an easily understood affair,
and has never occasioned the least trouble
or perplexity. The annoyance came alto
Vether from the local sun time in use by
citizens of this town. The
clocks and watches Of Wheeling
ties, twenty-three minutes slower than
Eastern, and thirty-three minutes faster
than Central time, made rather puzzling
combination, and it was with view to
simplifying matters that Council abolished
local time. Those people who contend
that the universal use OF Standard time
brings into being a situation fully as COM
phcated as the old state of affairs, SIMPLY
fail TO comprehend the facts. They might
as well say that in problem in which
three factors figure, the removal OF an I'M
necessary but disturbing element renders
a solution on the basis of the remaining
two more difficult,O or leaves the proposition
as complex as before.
That there is a popular misunderstood
ing of the matter, even IN unexpected
quarters, cannot be denied. For instance,
in publication yesterday the writer SAID:
1.-The eastern bound trains on the b. x
10. will be accommodated, but rs the
western bound trains will still leave on the
old Central Standard time, the change will
make a difference OF an hour, instead OF
half an hour, as it formally was"
This is very funny. Again this observa-
ton appears:
''T6e C. & P. and c., l.. & W. trains on
the opposite side of the river will still OBJ
serve the Western standard time, 50 that
the new arrangement will make affairs
fully as complicated as they were under
the old system" =.
We should say it would, if it performed
any such miracle as making the roads over
the river run on Western time. How the
mere abolition of local time in Wheeling
could make any change in the running OF
trains in Ohio, where Central standard
time has been and will continue to be
observed, cannot he explained in very
satisfactory manner.
The railroads on both sides OF the river
will run right along in the good old way,
and q practical observance of the Standard
system by our people will convince all
that we have gained by the change. The
only thing to be remembered is that the
time in West Virginia is exactly one hour
faster than the time in Ohio.
There has been some discussion Of the
effect the change will have upon working
men, who must report twenty-three
minutes earlier each morning. This
may be a disadvantage, but there
is a compensation in that they
will cease work twenty-three minutes
sooner in the evening, enabling work
men to have Just that much more leisure
time for recreation. In Pittsburgh, where
the change was lately made, the many
thOusands of mill employees and Others are
more than satisfied, and there has never
been any trouble in industrial establish
ments in Benwood where b. 4 o. time, or
Eastern standard, has been observed right
along for years.